I still pronounce it "Ace us" instead of "Ah soos" :-D

Tempted to slap a touch screen on my 1000H >.<

Tim.

LOOK AT THE AUDIO SOCKETS!!!

They right next to the touch pad :-/ It's the worst place to put them IMO.

I've an ASUS F3Jm with a similar design and I've almost broken the sockets with my hand constantly resting on them.

Heaven forbid someone actually uses the touch pad primarily to control a cursor rather than a Mouse :@

Ooh! Bring on the Silver Shaver :-P

Should be as smooth as the Silver Surfer :-D

Only in a second rate education system would you find this problem occurring. Back in my day we weren't allowed to have 'Walkmans' at school. So when iPods came about, they were of course banned by the general policy already in place.

To curb cheating during exams or tests you were only permitted 'Pens, Pencils, eraser, ruler, etc' (the basic necessities to complete the task). If a calculator was required, it had to be handed in to an examiner where they reset the memory (worth noting that calculators capable of InfraRed / Bluetooth were not allowed).

Then again, that's just Australia. US' take on copyright laws is piss weak with their fair-use clause, as is the education system. :-)

Oh jeeze. You were really late on announcing this one. ticalc.org mentioned this when they only had it available for the Germans, and then a few months ago to the rest of the world.

Even my state in Australia has explicitly mentioned the TI-nSpire calcs for highschool examinations. ;-P

Just taking a stab in the dark: Would Toshiba WANT to allies whom infringe upon patents?

I wanna shove a super fast SSD or something in my ExpressCard slot. It's oh-so-empty at the moment :-( Possible?

I'm surprised they've hit the 20 million this soon. I would've thought that people would've put off the upgrade for another year or so. Especially considering corporations have to take into consideration the "training" involved for their staff etc.

MS Office 2007 on the other hand, that's going to make a lot of "MS Office Xperts" in the office say "WHO THE HELL REPLACED THE MENUS WITH THIS BUTTONS?!?!". This is a big change if you've grown accustomed to using "standard" menu-navigation in the Windows environment.

People buy iPod (e,Pod) mini's to avoid: socializing on public transport, getting peeved while doing a clerical jobs, bad fashion sense (who the hell uses a Zune with a MacBook, OMG! Eww!); and many many more valid* reasons.

I mentioned SS memory because it's another thing Microsoft could look at if they decide to release another edition of the Zune (maybe they designed one last year and will hope to launch it by 2010). The read speed is pathetic. If you're loading media onto the device you can take your time.

What's more important: the write speed for loading content onto the device, or the read speed for using it everyday? Rhetorical question.

All I hear about Zune's a iPod's is how sh$t they are.

Has anyone actually considered buying a media player from a reputable company who's field is specifically solid state memory?